How to Use disarm in a Sentence

disarm

verb

• It took more than an hour to disarm the bomb.
• The terrorists have refused to disarm.
• The government has been unsuccessful at disarming the rebels.
• Even nearer the end of the book, Smith begins to disarm this fear.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• The sheriff said the pastor was armed, but the suspect was able to disarm him.
  — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2021
• Pair it with your Alexa devices to arm and disarm the system without getting out of bed.
  — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 13 Oct. 2020
• The pastor was armed and drew his firearm, but the suspect lunged at the pastor and was able to disarm him, the sheriff said.
  — Author: Dana Branham, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2021
• To do so would be to unilaterally disarm, and the stakes today are simply too high.
  — Charles J. Holden / Made By History, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• The Iraqi government dispatched explosive ordnance experts to disarm the mine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2021
• According to Debra Hixon's campaign website her husband died while trying to disarm the shooter.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2020
• Rittenhouse’s legal team is arguing self-defense, saying the teen was pursued by members of a mob that threatened him with death and attempted to disarm him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Jacobs has been charged with attempting to disarm a police officer during a protest over an operation to remove homeless people from the park.
  — Colleen Slevin, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
• Despite their injuries, the deputies managed to disarm Johnson without further violence.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
• According to City Park spokesperson Amanda Frentz, when the break-in occurred an alarm went off in the carousel building, but the vandals cut wires to disarm it.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• Whiskey, with its broad shoulders and oaky fullness, can be almost completely disarmed by tarting it up with fresh lemon juice and balancing with simple syrup, as bartenders have been doing since roughly forever.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 July 2024
• At every stop, hostile right-wing detractors disqualify their efforts solely based on their age and deem them puppets of a progressive master plan to disarm the population.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• The 68-year-old man tried to disarm Liu and was also stabbed.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2022
• This works with Alexa to arm and disarm the alarms or just to check the status of the system.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 12 May 2021
• With that, Fin lunges at the boy to try and disarm him, but the gun goes off amid the struggle.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• Police said two men helped to disarm Aldrich the night of the shooting.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• Use the key to reverse the lock the shackle to disarm the alarm for travel.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
• The two deputies managed to disarm and subdue the suspect.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• In a grim tactic, the men in the church use a body as a decoy to disarm the attackers, and rush out.
  — Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
• The Democrats had a chance to disarm this ticking time bomb during the lame-duck session but chose not to.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
• Roland disarmed one of robbers and shot him in the leg before the other two attacked him.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
• Democrats have a chance to disarm this gun before McCarthy and his colleagues place it to the side of the nation’s head in a few months.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• When a white man allegedly tried to disarm a Black man, a gun went off and a firefight broke out.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Cheng, 52, charged the suspect and tried to disarm him allowing others to jump in, Barnes said.
  — Byjulia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 May 2022
• It’s sort of our duty to try to disarm this a bit and process it so people can move through their fear and anger to a degree.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• And Ukraine must disarm so that is vulnerable to future Russian aggression down the road.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 16 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024